Happy 2010

Well, it's finally here, 2010. And as you can see above, we actually have water in our Dream River! To me, it looks pretty cool because it means we have had LOTS of water coming down lately. You can see from the picture above that there is still lots more to come. In a desert, this is really good news.

I finally noticed this morning, that the sun is rising earlier. That is going to make it a lot easier to go out and feed before I take off for work. At this time of year, we really start looking forward to spring, summer, and fall when we can really gear up to go out and ride. We've got some really fun things planned. Patty introduced us to a whole bunch of new horse games that we are excited to try out with our kids (and ourselves). We will continue to do our medieval horse recreation, and of course Kid's Camps are going to be great!

We did more full moon rides last year than the year before, and I really hope for even more this year! Plus lots of trail rides during the day.

We are looking forward to meeting some new ranch friends we haven't even heard of yet. We are looking forward to Douglas and Connie coming to stay with us and see if they would like to become part of our community. Wave! Hi Douglas and Connie! We are looking forward to meeting Pat, and also perhaps Nancy. And next summer, we hope to see our volunteer friends back for even more fun!

The garden has the infrastructure almost completely done, this year we should have a bang up garden and we are looking forward to building a root cellar. We think at this time, that we are going to use one of the berms we will be putting up as the base for our cellar. Who knows? We might even be able to get some our Dream River Ranch produce to the Mountain Home Farmer's Market.

Possibly, we will build a new chicken coop this year using straw bale construction. We just have to finalize where we really want to put it, because once it's built, we aren't moving it.

Hopefully, we'll get some roofs for our horse wind breaks, so they can have better shelter from the elements.

I'm hoping to get the website even better than it is right now, since I've already started working on it, it's a distinct possibility.

Most of all, we hope for our community of friends for this next year: health, joy, blessings, and most of all....life!